Steam - "This Game is Currently Unavailable"

Tyrone77 · 31 Aug 2011 at 12:46

TheCenturion said:
My brother gets this problem with spiral knight.

IT'S THE GAMING APOCALYPSE!!!

We will look back at this thread and wonder why we didn't see the signs!

The day Steam goes down nerds across the world will RIOT. Think recent riots, but with keyboards & mice.

richb93 · 31 Aug 2011 at 12:47

Did you verify the game cache? Whenever games don't launch for me or I've copied them across from an old install I just verify them and it only downloads files that are missing. And it fixes any dodgy steam registry issues too.

Narj · 31 Aug 2011 at 13:27

richb93 said:
Did you verify the game cache? Whenever games don't launch for me or I've copied them across from an old install I just verify them and it only downloads files that are missing. And it fixes any dodgy steam registry issues too.

As above, I've done that!

I've tried everything in the support article (bar launching the EXE direct, will try that when I get home). I'll continue downloading later on and hope for the best.

I have been playing Portal2 and was really enjoying it, hence why I'm a bit miffed that I can't continue my game.

I'm not throwing the toys out of the pram but it's meant that I've ended up going out boozing instead of enjoying the game. That costs money!

Narj · 1 Sep 2011 at 22:07

Deleting local content and re-downloading fixed it... Weird. I'd tried the "Read Only" uncheck trick as well.

Cliste · 1 Sep 2011 at 22:39

Odd.

It's usually because the game engine hasn't been fully downloaded or implemented.

Has been happening on RO2 atm for some people because the Unreal3 engine wasn't fully installed.

kayomani · 1 Sep 2011 at 22:42

Verify cache and deleting the client blob fixed this in l4d2 the other day for me

Narj · 2 Sep 2011 at 09:33

kayomani said:
Verify cache and deleting the client blob fixed this in l4d2 the other day for me

Yeah I'd tried all this... Steam got back to me with the bog standard scripted stuff.... stuff about network etc despite the fact that it was the only game with a problem. :rolleyes:

At a guess maybe moving and restoring it may have been quicker but no guarantee it would have worked.

nickbayley · 2 Sep 2011 at 10:17

Glad you got it sorted out!

Now to enjoy the rest of Portal 2!

By the way, have you played the Co-op at all? I still need to find someone who hasn't played it at all for a Steam achievement

markk · 2 Sep 2011 at 10:21

They are not your games by the way - you have merely purchased a licence to play them!!

Dun dun dunnnnnnnn